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Mr. Stelmach– tear down this free speech wall!

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Calgary Herald… Is the tide of Canadian censorship finally starting to turn?

We are hopeful, though not tempted to complacency.

This week, the Alberta Human Rights Commission cited a string of recent court and commission climb-downs, in the reasons it gave for dismissing a complaint lodged against this newspaper and its corporate companion, the Edmonton Journal.

Naturally, the Herald –which has been very vocal on this issue for many years, if not decades– welcomes the decision.

However, it rests on an interpretation by a human rights commission of its own powers: The situation is thus somewhat comparable to the police investigating allegations of police misbehaviour. So, while it is a good thing that commissions are starting to realize how much they have exceeded the intentions of those who established them, a reduction of their powers must be cemented with new legislation, if free-speech rights are to be properly protected.

The case involving the Herald and the Journal arose from an editorial published in April 2002, which catalogued several allegations of duplicity, manipulation, atrocity and hypocrisy on the part of Palestinian leaders in their dealings with Israel.

At the time, reports of terrorist activity came almost daily, interspersed with the late Yasser Arafat’s protestations that all he wanted was peace: The matter was top of mind, and ripe for public examination. However, Muslim advocates complained that it was “likely to expose to hatred or contempt Palestinian Arabs and Muslims,” though there was no proof of that whatsoever and it was certainly not the intent.

Initially, the AHRC was inclined to agree, its 2004 Investigating Report finding “merit” to the complaint.

However, nearly five years later (and seven years after the original publication) it changed gears. “. . . Although offensive, the editorial does not infringe Section 3 of the Act . . . This is supported by recent case law since the issue of the Investigating Report,” wrote commission director Marie Riddle.

And, what did the new case law say? Continue Reading →

Father, brother to stand trial in girl’s killing

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Aqsa Parvez

Aqsa Parvez

 The Toronto Star… A Mississauga father and son have been ordered to stand trial next year in a slaying that has attracted international attention.

Justice George Gage today decided there was enough evidence for Muhammad Parvez, now 59, and his son Waqas, now 28, to be tried for the planned and pre-meditated slaying of Aqsa Parvez. They were both committed to trial on a charge of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of Aqsa Parvez.

The 16-year-old student at Applewood Heights Secondary School died on Dec. 10, 2007. Aqsa, known to her friends as “Axa” was the youngest of eight children in the family, which immigrated from Pakistan.

The killing, which some have described as a carefully planned honour killing while others say was a horrible case of uncontrollable domestic violence continues to be the subject of world-wide Internet discussion involving a clash of Western and Middle Eastern cultures.

Evidence presented at the lengthy preliminary hearing and the reasons behind Justice Gage’s decision remain under a court-ordered publication ban.

 

 

Foreign troops launch Somali raid

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Foreign soldiers have staged an attack on militants in Somalia, killing at least two people in a helicopter raid.

The troops, who according to some reports had uniforms with French insignia, attacked a vehicle carrying Islamists from the al-Shabab group.

Witnesses said the troops took away two men, and there were two bodies left in the road after the attack in the southern coastal town of Barawe.

A French military spokesman has denied its forces were involved.

“There was no French operation,” said admiral Christophe Prazuck, spokesman for the armed forces’ general staff, according to the AFP news agency.

He said the only French forces in the region were tackling pirates off the coast and did not intervene on land.

Witness Dahir Ahmed said that the helicopters had taken off from a nearby warship flying a French flag.

A spokesman for al-Shabab, which controls Barawe, has told the BBC that its forces were attacked but did not give any other details.

A village elder said four foreign helicopters were involved in the raid.

“A car was destroyed, we are also hearing that some of the vehicle’s passengers were taken on the helicopters,” he told AFP.

French commandos have launched raids in the past to rescue their citizens from pirates or militants. There is a French military base in neighbouring Djibouti.

The assault comes several weeks after a Frenchman held by militants in Mogadishu managed to get free.

The US has also carried out air strikes against Somali Islamist groups it accused of links to al-Qaeda in recent years.

Somalia has not had a functioning central government since 1991.

Rival Islamist factions are battling forces loyal to the weak UN-backed government, which only controls small parts of the capital Mogadishu.

Bin Laden: Obama ‘powerless’ in Afghanistan

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CBC… President Barack Obama is “powerless” to stop the war in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden reportedly said in a tape released Monday.

Bin Laden, who is believed to be hiding in the mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, typically addresses the American people in a message timed around anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“We have demonstrated and stated many times, for more than two and a half decades, that the cause of our disagreement with you is your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine,” bin Laden says in the 11-minute video, which shows a still picture of him.

“The delay in your knowing those causes has cost you a lot without any result whatsoever,” he said in the tape released by al-Qaeda’s media wing, as-Sahab in Cairo.

“This position of yours, combined with some other injustices, pushed us to undertake the events of [Sept. 11, 2001],” bin Laden said.

He said that if Americans realized the extent of the “suffering from the injustice of the Jews … you will realize that both our nations are victims of the policies of the White House,” which he described as “a hostage” to interest groups and companies.

Canadian soldier killed, four injured in Afghanistan IED blast

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Ottawa Citizen… KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The price Canada pays for waging war in Afghanistan has risen once more with the death of Pte. Patrick Lormand, 21, who was killed in action Sunday when a Canadian armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device.

Pte. Lormand is the 130th soldier to die in Afghanistan since the mission began in 2002. Four other Canadian soldiers received minor injuries in the blast, and were treated and released from hospital.

Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance described Pte. Lormand as a proud and heroic infantryman who “came here to do right by Afghanistan, to serve Canada’s objective to help bring peace, a chance for lasting security and a better environment to live and raise a family.”

In praising Pte. Lormand, however, Gen. Vance also seemed to take aim at the growing voices of opposition to the war back home.

“He did not come here as a potential victim. He came here to help, and help he did. He does not need to be told his efforts are futile, for he could see positive results in the communities he was protecting.” said Gen. Vance. “Neither he nor his family benefit from uninformed opinions about what his goals were and the techniques he used to achieve them. You need only look into those young clear eyes to know that he was a good soul, who tried every day to do the right thing and saw in the results of his efforts a chance to succeed on a wider scale on behalf of Canadians and Afghans alike.”

Canada’s role in Afghanistan was sharply criticized by Senator Colin Kenny in an op-ed article published in some Canwest newspapers on the weekend.

“What we hoped to accomplish in Afghanistan is proving to be impossible,” wrote Mr. Kenny, chair of the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence. “We are hurtling toward a Vietnam ending.” Continue Reading →

Airline plot trio get life terms

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(L to R) Tanvir Hussain, Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Assad Sarwar were found guilty

(L to R) Tanvir Hussain, Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Assad Sarwar were found guilty

  BBC NEWS… Three men who plotted to blow up transatlantic flights with liquid bombs have received life sentences, with minimum terms of 32 to 40 years.

Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, will serve a minimum of 40 years in jail.

Plot “quartermaster” Assad Sarwar, 29, was jailed for at least 36 years, while Tanvir Hussain, 28, received at least 32 years’ jail at Woolwich Crown Court.

The judge said the men were guilty of “the most grave and wicked conspiracy ever proven within this jurisdiction”.

“The intention was to perpetrate a terrorist outrage that would stand alongside the events of September 11, 2001 in history,” said Mr Justice Henriques.

“I’m satisfied that there is every likelihood that this plot would have succeeded but for the intervention of the police and the security service.”

A fourth man, Umar Islam, 31, convicted of a more general conspiracy to murder charge, has been given a life sentence and will serve a minimum of 22 years in prison.

The men’s arrests in 2006 caused chaos to the global aviation industry and prompted continuing restrictions to the amount of liquids passengers can take on to aircraft.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, is seeking a retrial of three other men for conspiracy to murder, after the jury failed to reach a verdict on this charge against them.

A legal hearing on 5 October will decide whether Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Khan, 28, and Waheed Zaman, 25, will face another trial.

Britons confront pro-Palestinian marchers in London

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Daily Mail… Hundreds of people on a pro-Palestinian rally in London were met by a group of far-right protesters holding Union Jacks and shouting ‘we hate Muslims’.

The supporters of the English Defence League turned up at the annual Al-Quds Day demonstration to show support for Palestinians and ‘oppressed people’.

There was a heavy police presence in Central London and the procession was met with a small but vocal crowd at Piccadilly Circus.

A line of men, some wearing Millwall FC shirts, held up a union flag and shouted at the marchers.

The men held a banner declaring ‘March for England’.

Police kept the two sides apart as the procession went past and Scotland Yard said there had been no arrests. 

English Defence League activists chanted ‘We hate Muslims’ and ‘Muslim bombers off our streets’, according to The Guardian.

Some protesters attempting to cover their faces, sang ‘English and we’re proud of it’.

A group of around 30 police officers in fluorescent yellow jackets walked ahead of the procession as it snaked along Park Lane.

The rally ended in Waterloo Place, just off Pall Mall.

Police moved any potential troublemakers to a cordoned area at the top of the road.

Chants including ‘end the occupation now’ and ‘Israel is a terrorist state’ could be heard as the crowd set off on the march toward Pall Mall for their rally.

Organisers said the event had been held in the capital for the last 27 years without any trouble on the part of the demonstrators and were confident that would continue this year despite warnings by anti-Islamic groups. Continue Reading →

Rapist praised by judge for converting to Islam

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Daily Mail  A judge lambasted a rapist for claiming his victim was a liar – then commended him for becoming a muslim.

Judge Anthony Goldstaub QC sentenced Stuart Wood for seven years for the attack, then told him: ‘You have turned to Islam and this promises well for your future, particularly as you are now an adherent of a religion which respects women and self-discipline.’  Hey sis, you better wrap yourself in 8 yards of heavy fabric so I am not tempted to rape you.

Speaking at Chelmsford Crown Court, Judge Goldstaub strongly criticised Wood, 34, for pleading not guilty at his trial which meant his victim was put through the ordeal of having to tell 12 strangers ‘the most intimate details’.

‘This she did with dignity and courage,’ said Judge Goldstaub. ‘You, through your counsel, called her a liar and suggested she had invented rape.’

The judge added that Wood, who had previous convictions for indecent assault on underage girls and for violence, had shown no remorse and still protested his innocence about the attack in August last year in Colchester, Essex.

He added that Wood had achieved the humiliation he intended on his victim.

Wood, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm.

He was jailed for seven years for rape, nine months for ABH and three months for common assault, making a total of eight years. He will be on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

Student fined for Israel flag in Germany

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Jerusalem Post… A local district court in the West German city of Bochum fined a student 300 Euros on Wednesday for displaying an Israel flag at a demonstration organized by Muslim organizations against the IDF Operation Cast Lead in January. According to Der Westen, a regional paper in Bochum, the public prosecutor termed the Israeli flag as “provoking” within a special situation.

The 30-year-old student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she fears for her safety due to “massive problems with Nazis”, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that the “Israeli flag is a provocation for the anti-Semites.” She asked rhetorically, “What is provocative about an Israel flag?” The public prosecutor in Bochum was not available for an immediate comment on the case.

According to Der Westen, the local district court judged deemed the protest of the five activists expressing solidarity with Israel as a “dangerous situation.”

A spokesman for the district court, Volker Talarowski, told the Post that there was a “violation of the right to assembly” and the court’s decision was issued “independent of a political motivation.” Talarowski added that the pro-Israel demonstrators failed to register their protest 48 hours before the event.

Yet the student, who is appealing the fine, said a special regulation permits “spontaneous” demonstrations without a pre-registration. In response to a hardcore anti-Israeli demonstration in Bochum attended by 1,600 protesters on January 17, the student, along with four pro-Israeli activists, displayed a banner stating “Against anti-Semitism and fascism: Solidarity with Israel” as well as the Israel flag. She told the Post that pro-Palestinian supporters “compared Israel with Nazi Germany.” Chants of “children murderer Israel” and “Israel terrorist” filled the protest as well as a banner reading “stop the Holocaust in Gaza.”

“There is no basis” to draw a parallel between Nazi Germany and Israel, she said. “A Holocaust did not take place in Gaza. Israel defended its territory from rocket fire” emanating from Hamas, added the student. She termed the argument comparing the Israeli military operation in Gaza with the Holocaust as anti-Semitic.

In the Der Westen news report, the student said there is a “confusion of perpetrator and victim. You can only call that anti-Semitism.” She told the Post that the protestors in Bochum designated Israelis as Nazis and the Palestinians in Gaza as Jews during the Third Reich.

During Operation Cast Lead over 100,000 mainly German Muslims protested across German cities and frequently compared Israel with the Hitler movement. The European Union’s working definition of anti-Semitism defines such comparisons between the Nazis and the Jewish state as a modern manifestation of anti-Semitism, largely because the parallel delegitimizes Israel’s right to exist.

U.K.; 20 convicted Islamic terrorists freed from jail early

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Released: Esayas Girma (left) was jailed for helping a 21/7 suicide bomber and Abu Baker Mansha (right) was caught carrying a converted pistol and the name and address of an Army corporal

Released: Esayas Girma (left) was jailed for helping a 21/7 suicide bomber and Abu Baker Mansha (right) was caught carrying a converted pistol and the name and address of an Army corporal

MailOnline… Dozens of convicted Islamic terrorists are back on the streets after being freed early from jail.  

Taxpayers now face a multi-million pound bill to keep tabs on the dangerous fanatics as 20 are set free and another 75 terrorists are due to be released over the next few years.

Among them are Muslim extremists jailed for offences including planning to kill soldiers, attending terror training camps and helping suicide bombers.

Most of those convicted of terrorism offences received short fixed jail terms and were released after serving two thirds of their sentence.

But because of continuing concerns about the threat they pose to national security, police and intelligence services will have to mount a huge surveillance operation to ensure that they do not plot further atrocities.

At least four of the 20 released recently are said to pose a high risk to the public, requiring 24-hour supervision by police and intelligence agents.

A fifth high risk offender, due to be released later this year will be placed in a hostel in the South East.

But police and probation staff fear they will be stretched to the limit by the release of almost 100 terrorists in the coming years.

The news comes after three British-born Muslims were convicted on Monday of trying to blow up seven transatlantic airlines using liquid bombs disguised as soft drinks in a plot to rival 9/11.

Although they face 40 years in jail, other bomb plotters are already free.

At least three people convicted of helping the 21/7 suicide bomb plotters are back out on the streets.

The organisers of the Danish cartoon protests in London, when fanatics hailed the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks are also free after their sentences were cut by a third on appeal.

Five Birmingham-based suspects among a gang led by Parvis Khan, convicted of masterminding a plot to behead a British Muslim soldier, have also been freed.

Around 75 Islamic extremists are due to be released in the next three to four years.

Among them is al-Qaeda trained terrorist Sohail Qureshi.

The East London dental assistant was arrested in October 2006 at Heathrow Airport on the way to Afghanistan where he planned to attack British troops.

Since 1999, at least 150 men have been convicted of terrorist offences, with 120 linked to al-Qaeda.  

Of those, 115 were given determinate sentences which means they will be released after serving two thirds of their terms, despite being refused for parole in many cases. Continue Reading →

More on the Muslim desecration of English graves in U.K.

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What more? This is another story the British media refuse to print in the interest of  “community cohesion”. One would think such a vile act would be condemned by all.

Instead it is another in the long list of criminal acts against the British, by Muslims, that goes unanswered and unreported.

Muslims rip up Christian graves

U.K. deports Canadian wed to Welshman

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MSNBC… A Canadian woman married to a British man has been deported from the United Kingdom because of a British law aimed at preventing forced marriages.

Rochelle Wallis, 19, boarded a flight at Heathrow airport on Wednesday to travel to Calgary where she will be met by her mother, who she will be living with in Revelstoke, B.C..

Wallis, formerly Rochelle Roberts, met Adam Wallis, 28, when he was in British Columbia in 2006. They fell in love and had the necessary visa at the time they married in November 2008 in his village of Pontrhydygroes, Wales.

The couple’s marriage application was filed a month before her six-month visa expired, but wedding plans had to be delayed after officials lost their passport photos.

By the time the couple wed, she had outstayed her visa, meaning she had to return to Canada and apply for a spousal visa before going back to Wales.

But Britain’s new Forced Marriages Act, which raised the age individuals could apply for spousal visas from 18 to 21 for anyone outside the European Union, was in effect by then.

The law is intended to stop young girls and women from South Asia from being brought into the U.K. against their will and forced into arranged marriages.

“Rochelle entered into this union completely voluntarily,” said CBC correspondent Ann MacMillan. “The irony is if Adam had married someone from Poland or Portugal — EU countries — there would be no problem.”

Home Secretary Allan Johnson has written to the couple to order Wallis to leave Britain or be forcibly deported, the BBC reported.

The case has caught the attention of the British media and several members of Parliament.

‘Sensible thing to do’

Labour MP Keith Vaz, who chairs Parliament’s home affairs select committee, is backing the couple.

“I think the Home secretary ought to have used his discretion which he has to allow Rochelle to stay in this country,” Vaz told CBC. “She’s clearly not a threat to national security and therefore that would have been the sensible thing to do.

“These laws were brought in to stop forced marriages — the fear people under the age of 21 were being forced to marry people just to come into the United Kingdom — this is clearly not the case,” Vaz said.

A Home Office spokesperson told the BBC the benefits of the law outweigh the drawbacks and the possibility of cases similar to Wallis’s situation.

Wallis will be able to appeal the deportation as a human rights violation after she arrives back in Canada. But due to the time and money involved in such a legal challenge, the couple is not sure they will be pursuing that option, MacMillan said.

Though the two could also move to another EU country and live together until she turns 21, their current plan is to join each other for holidays in Europe until she is old enough to have her spousal visa approved, MacMillan said.

Mohammed second most common boys’ name in UK

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TIMES OF INDIA… Mohammed, in all its various spellings, is now the second most common boys’ name in the UK, next only to Jack. Jack and Olivia were the most popular names for babies last year – but the Office for National Statistics was accused of being “disingenuous” for listing various forms of Mohammed as different names.

Three variations of Mohammed originally featured in the list of the top 100 names released by the ONS, but none of them made the top ten.

Mohammed was placed 16th with 3,423, Muhammad 37th with 2,068 and Mohammad 65th with 1,100.

Figures for five other spellings – Muhammad (496), Mohamed (428), Mohamad (40), and Mohammod (10), were later released.

That made a total of 7,576 and put Mohammed and its alternatives ahead of the official second placed name, Oliver, of whom there were 7,413.

There were 8,007 Jacks, ensuring the name topped the list of boys’ names for the 13th year running.

“When we have done our research, mothers tell us Jack suggests honesty, trustworthiness and hard work. A Jack will be popular and have a strong character, but he will also be good,” said Faye Mingo, who compiles the research on names for Bounty.com, a parenting club.

Olivia was top name for girls in 2008, replacing Ruby.

Islamic colonisation destroying our heritage

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As there were no more white British people in the local area, the Grade II listed status church closed down — only now to be re-opened as a mosque.


bnprenaissance… The bloodless genocide and ethnic cleansing of the British people and culture continues apace with the latest example being the ripping up of a century old Christian cemetery to make way for a mosque in Manchester.
The grave desecrations, being carried out with a large Komatsu earthmover in the graveyard of the St John the Apostle and Evangelist church at the corner of Holmfirth Street and St Johns Road, is part of the re-opening of this nineteenth century church as the Dar-ul-Ulum Qadria Jilania Islamic Centre.
A sign on the door says clearly that the Islamic Centre is already open for prayer — showing that by Islamic centre the colonisers actually mean mosque.

The conversion of this church (founded in 1845 on a site donated by Sir J. W. H. Anson) into a mosque has been made possible by the displacement of the local indigenous British population by waves of Third World immigration into Manchester.

As this policy gathered pace under successive Tory and Labour governments, the numbers of Third World colonisers grew to the point where they have now totally displaced the indigenous population.

As there were no more white British people in the local area, the Grade II listed status church closed down — only now to be re-opened as a mosque.

This church — formerly the largest Church of England parish in Longsight, was the only one in the area with a graveyard.

These Christian British graves — the only remnant of the now ethnically cleansed British people in the area — are obviously offensive to the Muslim colonisers, who have brought in the earthmoving machine to smash up the gravestones which are being literally crushed to rubble.

St John the Apostle and Evangelist church is a real time history lesson of what will happen to Britain unless the insane multicultural Lib/Lab/Con genocidal policies of mass Third World immigration are not only brought to an end, but reversed.

The British National Party is the only party which speaks up on this critical issue which directly affects the very future existence of this nation — and is also the only party which has the policies to stop this extermination of our folk and nation.

The British voters will soon be faced with a choice between their continued extermination at the hands of the Lib/Lab/Con ethnic cleansing party, or their survival as a free and independent indigenous people with the BNP.

Two fallen soldiers headed back to Canada

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Maj. Yannick Pepin (left) and Cpl. Jean-Francois Drouin of the 5th Canadian Combat Engineers were killed in an IED strike south of Kandahar City on Sept. 6, 2009.

Maj. Yannick Pepin (left) and Cpl. Jean-Francois Drouin of the 5th Canadian Combat Engineers were killed in an IED strike south of Kandahar City on Sept. 6, 2009.

 KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The most senior Canadian to die in combat in Afghanistan and one of his combat engineers began their long journey back to Canada on Monday after their flag-draped caskets were slowly marched on to a CC-130 Hercules transport as a lone piper skirled a sad lament.

 Maj. Yannick Pepin, 36, of Victoriaville, Que., commander of the 51st Field Engineers Squadron of the 5th Combat Engineers, and Cpl. Jean-Francois Drouin, 31, of Quebec City, who served with the same unit, were killed and five other Canadians were injured Sunday when their armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Dand District, southwest of Kandahar City.

 Three of the five wounded soldiers were released from hospital by Monday. All were listed in good condition.

 Pepin and Drouin were the 128th and 129th Canadian soldiers to die in Afghanistan since the first Canadian troops came to this war-plagued nation early in 2002.

 “Our thoughts and prayers go out to their loved ones in this time of grief, and to the five other Canadian Forces members injured in this attack,” said Defence Minister Peter MacKay.

 Quebec Premier Jean Charest said: “News of the death of Yannick Pepin and Jean-Francois Drouin distresses us deeply and touches all Quebecers . . . In the name of all Quebecers I salute their courage and generosity.”

 Five weeks ago, after a ramp ceremony for two of his sappers, Pepin said: “Everybody has fear in a mission. If you don’t, you’re not normal.

 “My sappers go first ahead of everyone to save the lives of civilians and soldiers.”

 Despite the deaths on Aug. 1 of Sapper Matthieu Allard and Sapper Christian Bobbitt, Pepin, who joined the army in 1999, had said his unit would only take 12 hours to mourn before getting “back on the road.”

 Sapper Alexandre Beaudin-D’Anjou of Quebec City, his face swollen and bloodied from wounds he suffered in Sunday’s blast, and Sapper Junior Lecours of Victoriaville, whose right arm was in a huge cast, stood to attention with some difficulty beside the rear door to the aircraft as the caskets of their fallen comrades passed by.

 After the ceremony was completed, Beaudin-D’Anjou made an emotional appeal to his countrymen to try to understand the Afghan mission better.

“I want to say that part of the Canadian population negatively views the work that we do here, above all because they don’t understand what we do,” Beaudin-D’Anjou said, as Sapper Junior Lecours, of Victoriaville, whose arm was in a large cast, stood beside him.

 “In my opinion the majority of the Afghan population benefits from what we do. Sadly, there are dangers in this, as you saw in yesterday’s incident. All the soldiers feel deeply that we will finish this work for one another.” Continue Reading →